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This isn’t the first time Facebook has received criticism for its privacy practices. In fact, Facebook’s problems stretch back to before its founding when then Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the school’s network to steal pictures of students for a site that ranked their attractiveness. Below is an infographic tracing the history of privacy snafus that have dogged the platform since its creation.

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Google, a company with vast pools of data about its users, is moving into the world of highly targeted ads. See how Google has changed its collection and use of the data transmitted by Google Toolbar, Analytics, Checkout, Chrome, Buzz, DoubleClick, Mobile Maps, Gmail, Search and YouTube.

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Google compiles and holds vast amounts of the world's data. It's supposed to be totally private but sometimes governments need that information for investigations, and they request it from Google (or its subsidiaries like YouTube, Blogger, or Orkut). Other times, governments find a piece of data offensive or erroneous, and request that Google remove it from its database entirely. The search giant makes all these requests public. This is a look at which countries ask Google for the most information on its users, which ask Google to remove the most information, and how often Google gives information.

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Google hopes to provide the richest user experience in their service, especially search, and one method of doing this is to collect user data. Every time you use one do Google's services. they capture valuable user information. Here is insight into how and what they are collecting.